story: CHAPTER XXV. THE VELVET COACH 
  
  
  
  No, my good Lord, Diana-- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL 
  
  A late autumn journey from the west coast to Paris was a more serious undertaking in the sixteenth century than the good seaman Master Hobbs was aware of, or he would have used stronger dissuasive measures against such an undertaking by the two youths, when the elder was in so frail a state of health; but there had been a certain deceptive strength and vigour about young Ribaumont while under strong excitement and determination, and the whole party fancied him far fitter to meet the hardships than was really the case. Philip Thistlewood always recollected that journey as the most distressing period of his life. 
  
  They were out of the ordinary highways, and therefore found the hiring of horses often extremely difficult. They had intended to purchase, but found no animals that, as Philip said, they would have accepted as a gift, though at every wretched inn where they had to wait while the country was scoured for the miserable jades, their proposed requirements fell lower and lower. Dens of smoke, dirt, and boorishness were the great proportion of those inns, where they were compelled to take refuge by the breaking down of one or other of the beasts, or by stress of weather. Snow, rain, thaw and frost alternated, each variety rendering the roads impassable; and at the best, the beasts could seldom be urged beyond a walk, fetlock-deep in mire or water. Worse than all, Berenger, far from recovered, and under the heavy oppression of a heartrending grief, could hardly fail to lose the ground that he had gained under the influence of hope. The cold seemed to fix itself on the wound on his cheek, terrible pain and swelling set in, depriving him entirely of sleep, permitting him to take no nourishment but fragments of soft crumbs soaked in wine or broth--when the inns afforded any such fare--and rendering speech excessively painful, and at last unintelligible. 
questions: What time of year was it?
questions: who was described as having a deceptive strenght and vigor?
questions: What was it that was diffuclt for them to hire?
questions: Where was it they were traveling from?
questions: to where?
questions: Was was rendering the roads they were traveling impassable?
questions: Why were they have troubles hiring horses?
questions: How did they decribe a great proportion of the inns they were staying at?
questions: And why is it that they were compelled to stay in those inn?
questions: Who was it that was far from recovered, had a wound on his cheek, and was deprived of sleep?
questions: what was the only thing he was able to eat?
questions: how was his speech?
questions: Who recollected the Jurney from the west coast to Paris was the most distressing period of their life?
answers: autumn
answers: late autumn journey
answers: Ribaumont
answers:  strength and vigour about young Ribaumont 
answers: horses
answers:  found the hiring of horses often extremely difficult
answers: the west coast
answers: journey from the west coast 
answers: to Paris
answers:  from the west coast to Paris
answers: Snow, rain, thaw and frost
answers:  Snow, rain, thaw and frost alternated
answers: They were out of the ordinary highways
answers: They were out of the ordinary highways, and therefore found the hiring of horses often extremely difficult
answers: Dens of smoke, dirt, and boorishness were the great proportion
answers: Dens of smoke, dirt, and boorishness were the great proportion 
answers: breaking down  of the beasts
answers: breaking down of one or other of the beasts, or by stress of weather.
answers: Berenger
answers: Worse than all, Berenger, far from recovered, 
answers: soft crumbs
answers: nourishment but fragments of soft crumbs
answers: unintelligible.
answers: endering speech excessively painful, and at last unintelligible. 
answers: Philip Thistlewood
answers: Philip Thistlewood always recollected that journey as the most distressing